Minnie Riperton. One of those artists I always thought I should get into. This week I got hold of her albums and gave them a listen and I'm so glad I did. Her iconic song Lovin' You is perhaps her most well known, but I vastly prefer the sumptuous lush sounds of the warm keyboard on Inside My Love. In particular the keyboard break where she sustains her high note is my favourite part, and I'm not alone. Other people have picked out this section, notably A Tribe Called Quest in their song Lyrics To Go and J…

Here's another taste of things to come in the shape of a transition using 3 layer digital mixing.

1) Evil Nine ft. Aesop Rock - Crooked (Original mix)
2) Evil Nine - Crooked (Bassbin Twin edit)
3) MJ Cole - Sincere (Re-cued edit)

Ways to listen
http://30thingsby30.com/jb/mix469.mp3

Info
Done purely in Virtual DJ, I have bridged the two songs using the Bassbin Twins edit of crooked to continue the beat between that and sincere

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"Your teeth don't even know where your gums are, it's like having a conversation with Mumrah!"

A tribute to DJ Yoda's song The Brush Off featuring Aspects. From the most excellent album The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda, which for some reason hasn't come across from MusicBrainz into Last.fm yet.

Being a bit of a perfectionist I've had this mix ready for about 3 months but I wasn't completely happy with it, but now I'm confident that it's ready for general consumption.

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Snap, Crackles & Pop, like all my mixes, doesn't have an agenda. It is a collection of songs I like. This is months of work on and off, with up to 5 layers of mixing in places, so I hope you like it.

Track list
01. I Want You
02. Facing That Void ft. Maroons
03. The Devil
04. Losing My Edge
05. Crisps
06. I…

Preview track: Dijital - Hi-Tek Marvin
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As a little preview for my forthcoming mix Snap, Crackles & Pop I'd like to present a little interlude I made where I combined a beat from a DJ Hi-Tek instrumental with a vocal sample from Sexual Healing. Part way through the main hook from The Ownerz joins the party.

Technical info
Mixing done in Virtual DJ, chopping and mastering done with Soundforge. The acapella of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing is from the once rare Sexual Healing Sessions album containing some more personal material of his and a couple of…

New mix
I've started work on my second CD length mix, title yet to be decided, and I'm using the song "Open Your Soul" by Atlantic Conveyor as a starting point. I've mixed Open Your Soul (Night Train mix) into the Music Box mix, then into the Dom Search mix. What comes out is a ~10 minute version of the song. Just as a side note the Dom Search (half of the Nextmen) mix is from the Nextmen's Friends and Family mix album. Unfortunately the tagging for Atlantic Conveyor's work is a bit sketchy at the moment. I shall…